Aaron Van Wirdum

Aaron Van Wirdum
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Aaron van Wirdum is interested in technology and how it affects social and political structures. He has been covering Bitcoin since 2013, focusing on privacy, scalability and more. Hodls BTC.

The Long Road To SegWit: How Bitcoin’s Biggest Protocol Upgrade Became Reality

Segregated Witness (SegWit) has activated on Bitcoin. As of today, all SegWit-ready nodes on the Bitcoin network are enforcing the new rules, marking Bitcoin’s biggest protocol upgrade to date.

Why Bcash Mining Shouldn’t Affect Bitcoin Much (But Bitcoin Mining Could Ruin Bcash)

For the past couple of days, Bitcoin Cash (Bcash or BCH) has been more profitable to mine than Bitcoin (BTC). This dynamic probably won't hurt Bitcoin in the long run.

A Bitcoin Social Media Storm Hit BitPay This Week: Here’s Why

The Bitcoin community is not taking kindly to BitPay this week. Influential developers are accusing the major payment processor of fraud, Bitcoin users on social media are calling for...

HiddenWallet and Samourai Wallet Join Forces to Make Bitcoin Private With ZeroLink

Ádám “nopara73” Ficsór, HiddenWallet developer and TumbleBit contributor, and “TDevD,” the pseudonymous Samourai wallet developer, are joining forces on a new privacy project: ZeroLink. ZeroLink is set to realize...

The Point of No Return: Segregated Witness Will Lock In on Bitcoin

Segregated Witness (SegWit), the highly anticipated protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, just reached the point of no return for lock in. This means that SegWit...

Bitcoin Cash or Bcash: What’s in a Name?

As Bitcoin Cash, or Bcash, is slowly but surely turning into a functioning cryptocurrency, one topic remains contentious in particular: its name.

The Birth of BCH: The First Crazy Days of “Bitcoin Cash”

Bitcoin Cash shares a history with Bitcoin, but yesterday it forked off to form its own blockchain and currency. Here’s the story so far.

A Beginner’s Guide to Claiming Your “Bitcoin Cash” (and Selling It)

Here's what you can do with your BCH if/when the first block is discovered.

The Future of “Bitcoin Cash:” An Interview with Bitcoin ABC lead developer Amaury Séchet

If all goes according to plan, August 1st will see the launch of a new cryptocurrency, described as an “airdrop altcoin,” a “spinoff-coin,” a “fork-coin,” a “clone-coin,” or —...

The Stage Is Set in Stanford for the Next Scaling Bitcoin Workshops

The Scaling Bitcoin Workshops will land in Stanford come November.Scaling Bitcoin, the conference where innovations like Segregated Witness and TumbleBit made their public “debut,” has quickly grown to become...

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